Button-fastening for garments



(No Model.)

I. NEWMAN.

BUTTON FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

No. 360,723. Patented Apr. 5, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC NEVMAN, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-FASTENING FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part: of Letters Patent No. 360,723, dated April5, 1887-.

Application filed December 2T, 1886. Serial No. E2-2,536. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC NEwMaN, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new ImprovementinButton-Fastenings for Garments; and I do hereby declare the following,when-taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in-

Figure l, a face view, the button-stripeonr plete; Fig. 2, a face viewof the strip, the buttons removed, showing the eyelets; Fig. 3, avertical central section through the strip, showing the buttons secured;Fig. 4, a section of one of the buttons, showing the holes as piercedthrough the button; Fig. 5, a section of the button, showing the holesas through the back of the button without piercing the front.

This invention relates to an improvement in fastenings forgarinents,such as waists, corsets, and like purposes, which are' naturally Vdrawnwith considerable tension around the person.

In such garments the strain upon the button is very great, and it isoften difficult to bring the button-hole to the button, so as tointerlock the two. Again, buttons applied to such garments, the strainis often unequal, at times great upon one button, at other times uponothers, and the tendency of the button to detach is very great.

The object of my invention is to so secure a series of buttons in thebutton-strip that a considerable degree of yielding may be permitted toeach button, and yet the buttons normally stand at their place on thestrip or garment; and it consists in a button-strip having a series ofeyelets introduced therein, and at the points where the buttons are tostand, combined with 4flat buttons having two holes pierced in each,with a tape or cord secured by one end on the reverse side of thebuttonstrip and run out through the first eyelet, thence through the twoholes in the button and returned, thence through the next eyelet, thebutton, and returned, and so on through the whole series, and secured tothe strip at the opposite end, and whereby each button is free to bedrawn from its place on the strip, the cord or tape freely passing outthrough the button to allow such movement of the button fromitsposition, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the button-strip, or strip to which the buttons are to beattached, and which is to be secured tothe garment or made a part'of it,in the usual manner. Through the strip a series of eyelets, a a, isintroduced and fixed, corresponding to the position where the buttonsare to stand.

The buttons B are iiat disks, made from any suitable material andpierced with two holes, b Z1. These may be directly through the blank,as indicated in Fig. 4; or they may be through the back portion of thebutton without piercing the front, as in Fig. 5. Upon the reverse sideof the strip a cord or tape, d, is xed to the strip, say as at e, and isrun through the iirst eyelet and through the perforations in the button,thence returned to the reverse side and carried to the second eyelet,through that eyelet, thence through the next button, and so onthroughout the series, and at the other end of the button-strip the tapeor cord is secured,as at f. The tape not being secured to thebutton-strip at any point between its extremes leaves the tape or cordfree from the strip, and so that a button may be drawn from the strip,as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 8, to a con'- siderable distance.This drawing of the button enables the person to take the button to thebutton-hole in the opposite edge or buttonhole strip in the garment.Then, after engaging it, drawing upon theneXt button will return thebutton so introduced. This permits each button to be drawn from thestrip to engage the button-hole, and then as successive buttons aresecured all will be brought to place. Thus the buttoning is very greatlyfacilitated, and, further than this, each button yields to aconsiderable extent to irregular movements ofthe body, so that whilemaking a secure fastening it is a yielding fastening, contributingmaterially to the comfort of the wearer.

I am aware that buttons having eyes attached thereto have been appliedbyinserting the eyes through the material or an eyelet therein, and thenrunning a cord through the successive eyes upon the reverse side. Itherefore do not wish to be understood as making claim to such afastening. Such a fastening .would be useless in a button-strip forcorsets and like garI roo ments, because of the eye in the button. Theessential feature of my invention is in making thebuttons in the form ofa flat disk, sc as to lie upon the outer surface of the garment, and thebuttons constructed with perforations in the body, and the stripprovided with eyelets at points where thebuttons are to be located, andso that: awcord upon the reverse side of the garment passes out throughthe eyelet in the garment, thence into one of the perforations of thebutton and out through the other, thence returned through the sameeyelet in the garment and tothe next eyelet and button, so that thebutton being secured lies flat upon the face side'of the garment, andits security is in fact made upon the face side of the garment, and

not upon the reverse side.

TSA AC NEVMAN.

Y Vitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, FRED C. EARLE.

